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biology grad here, having taken graduate level courses in immunology and focusing a great deal in AID/HIV im really sick of the flame war being battled here.

while im sure there is legislation and lobbying for big pharmaceuticals to #!+%@ out medication patents to make ridiculous amounts of money. (pfsier for lipitor, etc)(and there is 'semi' good reason to do so, since they have to discover it, refine it, make it safe and run clinical trials, etc) there is more money in 'curing' aids/hiv than only to the elite. I mean think about, 1-10,000 magic johnson in terms of money vs millions of people, you can clearly make more money off of treatments. this completely rebukes your financial standing point. but this is all besides the point.

im going to try and break this down so that even people so set in their ways can understand where i am coming from. from a scientific point of view, everyone is different. even if you mom and dad tried to make another you they would never be able to do it. thus 'curing' aids/hiv is different for everyone. let me repeat myself, treating for aids/hiv would be different for everyone. and just as you are different, the HIV is also different. there are so many strains of it to begin with (i.e. many different races and ethnicity in humans). It is changing and adapting to new treatments. so even as our treatments for it evolve, it is also changing to keep up (and outpaces) with our best efforts. Take for example the common cold. we havent been able to cure it. even with the many of flu shots being given out each year, people that received the shot still get sick. this is because we can never predict how the flu is going to change. this is completely the same with hiv/aids except that hiv/aids changes even faster.

im at work and dont have any more time. but people are going to be set in their ways. spend at least 4 years in college in science, read a book and new articles and then come back and then tell me there is a cure. Being uneducated is the biggest problem out there.